Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed    And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats    Janitors padlock the gates    For security guards to patrol    And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink    While the married ones turn on a chat show    And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow    Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve anymore    Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go    And by five o'clock everything's dead    And every third car is a cab    And ignorant people sleep in their beds    Like the doped white mice in the college lab    Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all    The needle returns to the start of the song    And we all sing along like before    And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow    Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there    The Martians could land in the carpark and no one would care    Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day    And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed    Just survive constant action replay    Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all    The needle returns to the start of the song    And we all sing along like before    And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow    Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs    While angry from Manchester writes to complain about    All the repeats on T.V.    And computer terminals report some gains    On the values of copper and tin    While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs    For the price of a hospital wing    Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all    The needle returns to the start of the song    And we all sing along like before    Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all    They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock    And we'll all go along like before    And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow